Happy Birthday to regulus1 ! May your year be blessed with joy, art and sweet love.

Wow...can we possibly twist and crimp our relationship to sex a bit more? *shakes head in disgust* --- BEIJING, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Table tennis is desperate to attract more viewers and some in the sport believe a simple enough solution exists: get the women to wear skirts and shirts with “curves”. “We are trying to push the players to use skirts and also nicer shirts, not the shirts that are made...

I was in Michigan this past weekend, where we discovered that there is a local Meadery. We were quite excited (being mead lovers, two of which embrace locavorism) so we tracked down a source that sold Bardic Wells brews. Though they were pricey (by my standards), we purchased several varieties including traditional, cordial magic (a coffee mead), root fruit (honey, carrot, apple and ginger...

Happy Birthday hess42 ! May your year be blessed with joy and laughter.

Some of you may remember an earlier post where I babbled on excitedly about our gardening plans this year. I thought I'd give a much overdue report on our season, though I've waffled on what to share. While it has been exciting to have more gardening space, much of the food growing efforts have been severely disappointing. Our back yard does not get enough sunlight and although we discussed this...

Some of you may remember an earlier post where I babbled on excitedly about our gardening plans this year. I thought I'd give a much overdue report on our season, though I've waffled on what to share. While it has been exciting to have more gardening space, much of the food growing efforts have been severaly disappointing. Our back yard does not get enough sun-light and although we discussed this...

This weekend was blessed and I am dripping with gratitude. Good friends + good work + good food = happy Jen. Friday I went out to the suburbs (eek!) to visit my beloved M and her daughter (my spirit niece). The little one is growing so quickly and part of me feels sad that I miss so much of her journey. It's exciting though to experience this smart, independent, precocious ball of Scorpio. Just look...

Today, for lunch, I am finishing the end of the worst pot of beans and rice I have ever manifested in my life. Really...they sucked. If eating the food that I buy were not a part of my food activism - the whole pot would have gone to compost. Ironically, when I was an omnivore I considered myself good at cooking beans (which I would do for much of the winter...with cornbread of course) but have...

I survived last weekend but am quite tired today. I'm not sure how folks who work Ren Faires do it. Two days in the sun, in costume, in character was plenty for me (particularly since I was really there as a glorified baby sitter). There was fun to be had though, I must admit. The weather was lovely (albeit warm in the garb), most of the kids were adorable and it was nice to get to hone my accent...

Do you eat? Do you like food that likes you back? Do you like the planet? Then you might want to check out Eat the View , which is "a campaign to plant healthy, edible landscapes in high-impact, high visibility places". You can sign the White House Food Garden Petition there, which Eat the View promises will be delivered to the President-elect this fall (along with a diverse collection of heirloom...